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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With their newfangled electrical and seismographic prospecting instruments, petroleum geologists have found indications that oil formations may lie as deep as 25,000 ft. below the earth's surface. Until the visible supply of oil begins seriously to dwindle, probably no one will try to drill five miles. Meanwhile, in California's San Joaquin Valley, Continental Oil Co. has bored to 15,004 ft.-nearly three miles. This well, prosaically designated as K.C.L. A2, is the deepest hole ever made in the Earth. Having brought up oil from 13,100 ft., it is also the deepest producer...
...source of a geyser's energy is supposed to be hot volcanic rock not far from the earth's surface, and the eruption is a self-accelerating physical process. The geyser's tube or pipe fills up with ground water or rain water. At the lower end it is heated by the rock. Because of the pressure of the water column, the temperature rises above the normal boiling point before steam is liberated. Once steam begins to form against the pressure, it raises the column, spilling water on top. This reduces the pressure below so that steam...
...some 1,500 square miles which includes New York City and adjacent sections of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut live 11,000,000 souls bound together by economic and social ties. Among their many superlatives, the inhabitants of this megalopolis support the greatest medical community on earth-814 hospitals and other agencies for care of the sick, which can hospitalize 70,976 bed-ridden patients at one time...
Scientists are now generally agreed that the earth rotates on its axis, and the speed of rotation has been accurately measured. Nevertheless, Sister Mary's pendulum will be something more than a mere exhibition. Since a pendulum's rate of oscillation depends on the force of gravity at the point where it operates, it will keep a constant record of the force of gravity for the Chicago area...
...After the last gabbling articulate human had passed from the earth, a single sunlit raindrop falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...